Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
by johndough on Friday May 15, 2026 @04:45PM
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It looks like the issue was that, in Italy, copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author or the first translator of a work.
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PG works based on US copyright law. And as I understand it that's also 70 years after author/translator death.
My gut feeling is that if anyone tried hard enough this ban could probably get lifted
Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
by robin_reala on Saturday May 16, 2026 @02:38PM
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That’s only the case for works published after the mid-70s. For works published before (which is all current PD books in the US), it’s 95 years after the date of publication, with a few exceptions where people failed to file renewal notices.